diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
index 090823e1..f3641248 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ class Extractor():
     ciphers = None
     tls12 = True
     browser = None
+    useragent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; "
+                 "rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0")
     request_interval = 0.0
     request_interval_min = 0.0
     request_interval_429 = 60.0
@@ -381,11 +383,13 @@ class Extractor():
             ssl_ciphers = SSL_CIPHERS[browser]
         else:
             useragent = self.config("user-agent")
-            if useragent is None:
-                useragent = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; "
-                             "rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0")
+            if useragent is None or useragent == "auto":
+                useragent = self.useragent
             elif useragent == "browser":
                 useragent = _browser_useragent()
+            elif useragent is config.get(("extractor",), "user-agent") and \
+                    useragent == Extractor.useragent:
+                useragent = self.useragent
             headers["User-Agent"] = useragent
             headers["Accept"] = "*/*"
             headers["Accept-Language"] = "en-US,en;q=0.5"
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/danbooru.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/danbooru.py
index 1f33f9fb..c3dfd91a 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/danbooru.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/danbooru.py
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ class DanbooruExtractor(BaseExtractor):
     page_limit = 1000
     page_start = None
     per_page = 200
+    useragent = util.USERAGENT
     request_interval = (0.5, 1.5)
 
     def _init(self):
-        self.session.headers["User-Agent"] = util.USERAGENT
         self.ugoira = self.config("ugoira", False)
         self.external = self.config("external", False)
 
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/e621.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/e621.py
index 553ec22f..4a6624d0 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/e621.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/e621.py
@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ class E621Extractor(danbooru.DanbooruExtractor):
     page_limit = 750
     page_start = None
     per_page = 320
+    useragent = util.USERAGENT + " (by mikf)"
     request_interval_min = 1.0
 
     def items(self):
-        self.session.headers["User-Agent"] = util.USERAGENT + " (by mikf)"
-
         includes = self.config("metadata") or ()
         if includes:
             if isinstance(includes, str):
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/mangadex.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/mangadex.py
index 32283579..7f87cff8 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/mangadex.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/mangadex.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class MangadexExtractor(Extractor):
         "{manga}_c{chapter:>03}{chapter_minor}_{page:>03}.{extension}")
     archive_fmt = "{chapter_id}_{page}"
     root = "https://mangadex.org"
+    useragent = util.USERAGENT
     _cache = {}
 
     def __init__(self, match):
@@ -33,7 +34,6 @@ class MangadexExtractor(Extractor):
         self.uuid = match.group(1)
 
     def _init(self):
-        self.session.headers["User-Agent"] = util.USERAGENT
         self.api = MangadexAPI(self)
 
     def items(self):